Keyword: capacity expansion
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06.07.2015
- Vienna-based polyolefins and fertilizer giant Borealis has announced plans to invest €160 million to upgrade and revamp four cracker furnaces at Stenungsund, Sweden, to meet the...
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01.07.2015
- AkzoNobel is upgrading its research hub in Houston, Texas, to support its protective coatings, marine coatings and specialty coatings businesses. The expansion due for completion...
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30.06.2015
- Adsorption and filtration specialist CECA, a subsidiary of French chemical producer Arkema, is planning to double production capacity for its specialty molecular sieve to meet...
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28.06.2015
- Air Liquide has started production at its $392 million hydrogen site in Yanbu Industrial City, Saudi Arabia. The French gases producer firm will supply hydrogen to the new Yasref...
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23.06.2015
- Merck KGaA, the German chemicals and pharmaceuticals producer, has laid the cornerstone at its Darmstadt headquarters for a new plant to produce high-purity organic light-emitting...
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22.06.2015
- BASF has inaugurated its world-scale production complex for acrylic acid, butyl acrylate and superabsorbent polymers at Camaçari, Bahia, Brazil. The €500 million complex, first of...
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12.06.2015
- Solvay has begun production at its two new large-scale “on-pipe” alkoxylation plants in Europe and Asia. Both facilities produce alkoxylates used in Solvay’s Novecare specialty...
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10.06.2015
- Wacker Chemie has started up its new €8 million, 3,800 t/y specialty-monomer plant at Burghausen, Germany. The company said the new plant strengthens its position as the world’s...
